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Dear Customers,

Please help us stop South Korea deporting Falun Gong refugees to China by signing the petition. http://globalrescue.net/en/ We are asking South Korean President not to deport Falun Gong refugees to China, but to find an appropriate way, within the South Korean legal system and the international conventions on torture and refugees ratified by South Korea, to permit them to remain in South Korea.

On July 1^st and 28^th, 2009, respectively, three Falun Gong practitioners have been repatriated to China by the South Korean government. We are deeply shocked and saddened by the act of the South Korean government that allowed it to happen. As we have talked to you last month in DC, the Chinese government has extended the persecution of Falun Gong to other countries often through the economical influence. The South Korea incident is just the tip of the iceberg. Other deporting cases have happened before in other
countries such as Russia, Thailand and Cambodian, etc.. Below are a
few reports on the past cases.

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-3-31/53585.html
http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/8-2-12/65857.html
http://www.faluninfo.net/article/81/

The South Korean government joined the UN Convention related to the Status of Refugees (1951) and the Protocol related to the Status of Refugees (1967); it also joined the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which was recognized by the Korean Parliament and implemented from February 8, 1995. On the 1^st paragraph in Article 3 of the UN Convention against Torture, it clearly states: “No State Party shall expel, return or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture.” The Korean constitution says that the Minister of Justice can give an applicant humanitarian status, after they are refused refugee status, if there's a risk of persecution in their home country.

Currently there are 33 Falun Gong refugees at risk of deportation to China by South Korean Government. We are asking you to sign petition to help those practitioners to remain in South Korea. Falun Gong practitioners in China face the most brutally persecution in the world today and those who were deported face immediate persecution.